bookcurios Chapter 150 The War King is just a dead man after all
Chapter 150 The War King is just a dead man after all
The atmosphere in the Cining Palace suddenly became tense.
Nanny Su's usually calm demeanor was struggling to maintain, her tense face betraying her inner tension. Only the statuesque Eunuch Wei maintained his previous expression, as if he hadn't heard the conversation at all.
Old Madam Su slowly put down the Empress Dowager's hand, stood up from the chaise longue, glanced at Nanny Su, and motioned her to go.
"Oh, you're angry." Empress Dowager Xie rested her elbows on the chaise longue, looking at Old Madam Su's back with a half-smile and said with interest.
"However, I can't just come and go as I please in my Cining Palace."
Empress Dowager Xie winked at Eunuch Wei as she spoke, and Eunuch Wei immediately walked quickly out of the palace and ordered people to guard the palace door.
Old Madam Su, who was a step slower, frowned slightly, walked to the sand table specially prepared for her in the Cining Palace with a sullen face, and wrote a long sentence: Xie Zhilan, you don’t really think that no one in the world can do anything to you, do you?
"Yes, I have walked all the way here, and I have not seen anyone who can do anything to me!" Empress Dowager Xie raised her chin high, looking down on the world from a high position.
"Xie Zhixi, even you can't do anything to me, right?!"
Now, she is no longer an orphan from the Xie family's side branch who lives under someone else's roof and is bullied by others, but the current empress dowager who is above everyone else and no one dares to disobey her.
Even the declining Xie family was able to stay at the end of the nine clans because of Empress Dowager Xie, and was not squeezed out of the noble clans.
After receiving the order, Eunuch Wei stood guard at the door of the palace. At this time, only Empress Dowager Xie, Old Madam Su, and Nanny Su were left in the palace.
Empress Dowager Xie glanced at Old Madam Su with a flamboyant and wanton look. Although she was now over fifty years old, she was different from Old Madam Su. Her well-maintained face was still as beautiful as a delicate lady, and there was still charm between her eyebrows and eyes.
She looks like she is of a different generation from the elderly Madam Su.
Old Madam Su looked at Empress Dowager Xie coldly, her already solemn expression looked even more fierce, and her fingers kept writing on the sand table: I said, don't touch the Su family.
"What a joke! Are you threatening me?" Empress Dowager Xie curled her lips coldly and looked at Madam Su leisurely. "But what I hate most is threats."
Empress Dowager Xie said as she sat up from the imperial concubine couch and shouted to the outside of the palace, "Little Weizi, take my decree and go to Prince Zhan's palace to announce it."
"promise."
Eunuch Wei took the imperial edict and left.
Upon hearing this, Old Madam Su was about to explode, but Nanny Wu grabbed her arm tightly and held her down. She shook her head at the old lady, telling her not to be impulsive.
"Although I have written this decree, I am still hesitant about whether to issue it. After all, Prince Zhan is asking the emperor for a marriage decree, not me."
Empress Dowager Xie put her fingers in the shape of an orchid and admired the gorgeous finger gloves on her fingertips, seeming to find them extremely beautiful.
"But now that Zhixi has urged me like this, I can't help but issue an edict. After all, if the emperor issues an edict during the morning court tomorrow, it won't be my turn."
"Now, this imperial decree from my family can make you all unhappy, isn't that wonderful?"
Empress Dowager Xie raised her eyes, her slanted fox eyes were cold and charming, yet also carried an intimidating aura, and she looked provocatively at Madam Su, who had an unpleasant expression.
Old Madam Su took a deep breath and wrote on the sand table with her fingers: You are seriously ill.
Nanny Su glanced at Empress Dowager Xie nervously, and quickly raised her hand to erase the words on Old Madam Su's sand table. But Old Madam Su wrote even faster and more anxiously: Xie Zhilan, if you are unhappy, you want everyone in the world to be unhappy, but don't forget that you will have few supporters if you lose your way.
"I have lost my way and have few friends?" Empress Dowager Xie smoothed her loose black hair and walked barefoot to Old Madam Su. She gently pinched her chin and asked her to look at her: "Will Zhixi help me?"
This time, she was talking about me, not Ai.
"Su Jixue is not considered a member of your Su family. Your descendants of the Su family will naturally help protect her. You know this."
Empress Dowager Xie pinched Madam Su's chin with a little force, but her face was smiling like a flower, and her deep eyes seemed unfathomable.
Old Madam Su stared at Empress Dowager Xie, her frowning brows wrinkled into the shape of a "川" character, and her fingers continued to write on the sand table: What exactly do you want to do?
"There are so many things I want to do." Empress Dowager Xie let go of Old Madam Su and stood up again. She flicked her sleeves and skirt and returned to her chaise longue.
"For example, let that nosy and annoying person be buried with that old man in the imperial mausoleum."
"Or maybe she will become the mother of the country again."
"Or else try to complete the unfinished work of our grandfather."
Empress Dowager Xie smiled nonchalantly, but her eyes were always fixed on Madam Su: "Zhixi, you will help me like before, right?"
Old Madam Su looked at Empress Dowager Xie in disbelief. Although she knew she was crazy, she didn't know she was this crazy.
The first sentence is that Queen Mother Xie wanted to kill Prince Zhan and make him accompany the late emperor in the underworld.
The second sentence is, Empress Dowager Xie wants to be regent again, or in other words, to rule the country?
The third sentence expresses that the unfulfilled wish of Xie’s ancestor is the revival of Dongchu and its re-emergence as the overlord of the six kingdoms.
She looked at Empress Dowager Xie and wrote on the sand table with her finger: You sound like you are telling a joke.
"Is it a joke?" Although Empress Dowager Xie had a method to maintain her youthful appearance and still looked innocent, the coldness in her eyes was no less than that of a man. "We'll know whether it's a joke or not at court tomorrow."
The King of War's insistence on having his own way will inevitably incur public wrath.
The court of Dongchu is still controlled by the aristocratic families, but during the five days of the city closure, the War King never took the aristocratic families seriously, and the aristocratic family officials followed the lead of Old Zhuang.
Detaining the banker, this is the War King declaring war on the aristocratic families of Dongchu.
Old Madam Su's brows were still tightly furrowed: Prince Zhan had absolute reasons, after all, Zongkui was in the capital.
She had already heard everything from Manager Chen, so naturally she knew about Zong Kui.
"Who said Zong Kui is in the capital?" Empress Dowager Xie scoffed. "Jun Wuzui has a grudge against Zong Kui, yet he wants the capital to take the blame for him. Just wait and see at tomorrow's court meeting."
Obviously, she already knew what would happen in the court tomorrow.
"Tomorrow's court meeting will be chaotic, and the Emperor will be unable to make a decision. They will naturally remember my kindness. When the time comes, I will have to consider how to make my debut."
There was a malicious glint in Empress Dowager Xie's eyes, and she seemed to be particularly looking forward to what would happen tomorrow.
Old Madam Su looked at Empress Dowager Xie in disbelief, her fingers writing quickly: This is Dongchu, and you are the Empress Dowager of Dongchu. What good will it do you if there is real chaos?
But Empress Dowager Xie obviously hopes that the situation will be as chaotic as possible, and Jun Wuzui is not someone to be trifled with, so it will be difficult to end the situation without bloodshed.
"Zhixi, there is no cure for the poison in Jun Wuzui. He is just a dead man after all." Queen Mother Xie mentioned King Zhan with disdain. After all, it was just a life that slipped through her fingers, and she would have to give it back in the end.
"But Mr. Zhuang is old. If he can be a sacrifice to kill the War King, it will be a reward for his life."
"If he goes down, it will be Zhixi's son's turn to come up."
"Tell me, isn't it better for Dongchu to be in chaos?"